On Tuesday 04 July 2006 16:12, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Kern, > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Unless your OS is broken, Bacula always detects and reports when a volume > > gets a write error, which is the case when your partition fills up. I > > would > > That was my expectation, too. dir and sd running on a FC2 system > (with a 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 kernel); the data are on a NFS mounted > partitition (opts: nosuid,nodev,vers=3,proto=tcp) on a FC4 server > (2.6.16-1.2108_FC4 kernel).
You mean the Volumes are on an NFS mounted partition? or do you mean the data you are backing up? What counts is where the Volumes are. If they are on NFS mounted partitions, then all bets are off. If that is the case, you would be much better running a SD on the machine in question rather than using NFS. > > > classify the fact that Bacula continues attempting to create Volumes on a > > harddisk after a full partition as missing code (a bug if you will). > > However, before making any definitive statement, I would like to see the > > "error" messages that Bacula produced for you. They should be in the > > log. > > There aren't any error messages. That's what's puzzeling me. Where > would you expect to see such error messages? > > In Bacula, I get the expected messages, i. e. for example: > > 04-May 01:48 xxxxxx-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume > "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" on device "FileStorage" (/net/nyx/backup) 04-May 01:48 > xxxxxx-sd: New volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" mounted on device "FileStorage" > (/net/nyx/backup) at 04-May-2006 01:48. Volume name(s): > xxxxxx.denx.de-016|xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 05-May 01:07 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 06-May 01:40 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 08-May 15:44 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 09-May 12:05 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 10-May 01:24 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 11-May 02:43 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 12-May 10:39 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 15-May 22:42 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-017 > 16-May 01:05 xxxxxx-sd: Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" previously written, > moving to end of data. 16-May 01:10 xxxxxx-sd: End of medium on Volume > "xxxxxx.denx.de-017" Bytes=7,999,998,273 Blocks=124,013 at 16-May-2006 > 01:10. > > However, xxxxxx.denx.de-017 is just 4 kB (a single disk block). > > > I just re-ran a test: I filled up the file system until it was > reported as full: > > # date >foo > date: write error: No space left on device > > However, bacula says: > > 04-Jul 15:51 xxxxxx-dir: Start Backup JobId 3043, > Job=BackupCatalog.2006-07-04_15.41.51 04-Jul 15:51 xxxxxx-sd: Wrote label > to prelabeled Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-026" on device "FileStorage" > (/net/nyx/backup) 04-Jul 16:02 xxxxxx-dir: Bacula 1.38.5 (18Jan06): > 04-Jul-2006 16:02:20 JobId: 3043 > Job: BackupCatalog.2006-07-04_15.41.51 > Backup Level: Full > Client: "xxxxxx-fd" i686-pc-linux-gnu,redhat,(Tettnang) > FileSet: "Catalog" 2005-12-21 10:55:54 > Pool: "Default" > Storage: "File" > Scheduled time: 04-Jul-2006 15:41:42 > Start time: 04-Jul-2006 15:41:53 > End time: 04-Jul-2006 16:02:20 > Priority: 99 > FD Files Written: 1 > SD Files Written: 1 > FD Bytes Written: 1,524,018,563 > SD Bytes Written: 1,524,018,670 > Rate: 1242.1 KB/s > Software Compression: 73.4 % > Volume name(s): xxxxxx.denx.de-026 > Volume Session Id: 243 > Volume Session Time: 1144017997 > Last Volume Bytes: 1,525,918,129 > Non-fatal FD errors: 0 > SD Errors: 0 > FD termination status: OK > SD termination status: OK > Termination: Backup OK > > 04-Jul 16:02 xxxxxx-dir: Begin pruning Jobs. > 04-Jul 16:02 xxxxxx-dir: Pruned 0 Jobs for client xxxxxx-fd from catalog. > 04-Jul 16:02 xxxxxx-dir: Begin pruning Files. > 04-Jul 16:02 xxxxxx-dir: No Files found to prune. > 04-Jul 16:02 xxxxxx-dir: End auto prune. > > > And I see > > -rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 Jul 4 16:02 xxxxxx.denx.de-026 > > [Before running the test, this file was empty except for the volume label: > -rw-r----- 1 root root 213 Jul 3 21:05 xxxxxx.denx.de-026 > ] > > > It's only when I try to restoire from such a file that I run into trouble: > > 04-Jul 16:10 xxxxxx-sd: Ready to read from volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-026" on > device "FileStorage" (/net/nyx/backup). 04-Jul 16:10 xxxxxx-sd: > Restore.2006-07-04_16.10.45 Error: block.c:1025 Volume data error at > 0:4095! Short block of 3883 bytes on device "FileStorage" (/net/nyx/backup) > discarded. 04-Jul 16:10 xxxxxx-sd: Restore.2006-07-04_16.10.45 Error: > read_record.c:112 block.c:1025 Volume data error at 0:4095! Short block of > 3883 bytes on device "FileStorage" (/net/nyx/backup) discarded. 04-Jul > 16:10 xxxxxx-sd: End of Volume at file 0 on device "FileStorage" > (/net/nyx/backup), Volume "xxxxxx.denx.de-026" 04-Jul 16:10 xxxxxx-sd: End > of all volumes. > 04-Jul 16:10 xxxxxx-dir: Bacula 1.38.5 (18Jan06): 04-Jul-2006 16:10:48 > > > > BTW: are you still planning for a trip to Munich this summer? > > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? 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